In view of the delay in the elections to the Constituent
Assembly, mainly due to the fault of the former All-Russia
Electoral Commission, and in view of the formation by
counter-revolutionary groups of a special Constituent Assembly
Commission in opposition to the Commissariat set up by Soviet
power, rumours have been circulated that the Constituent
Assembly, as at present constituted, would not be convened at
all. The Council of People’s Commissars deems it necessary
to declare that these are absolutely false rumours, deliberately
and maliciously spread by the enemies of the Soviets of
Peasants’, Workers’ and Soldiers’
Deputies. According to the decree of the Council of
People’s Commissars, which has been approved by the Central
Executive Committee of the Soviets, the Constituent Assembly is
to meet as soon as one-half of its members, namely 400 deputies,
are duly registered at the Taurida Palace chancellory.